The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-01-20
DISlNFECTANTS.
Remedies for Stopping the Spread of Con.
tagious Diseases.

While looking over the papers in his
desk recently Chief Sanitary Officer
Charles W. Francis found q list of the
best disinfectants to be used in prevent
ing the spread of contagious diseases.
The list was prepared in 1879, during
his term as health commissioner, the
yellow fever raging at the time in the
south, with some scattering cases IN the
city, and others at quarantine. The
following is the list, together with the
directions as to the purpose of the arti-
cles and how they are 10 be used:
Carbolic Acid Qiuid)-To disinfect
vaults. cesspools. drains, and sewers,
garbage and decaying matter. also bed
ding and clothing. to be used as fol-
lows: Dilute at the rate of from forty
TO one hundred parts of water to one of
acid. Half 4 pint to be poured in every
vault. For large masses of filth pour
in solution every hour until every part
Is disinfected. To disinfect clothing
mix the acid with an equal quantity of
strong vinegar, then dilute as above.
For air OF sick-room suspend a piece of
CLOTH soaked in diluted solution.
Carbolic Acid (crude)-To disinfect
grounds, drains, or the air of foul
place, for the sprinkling of streets, gut
ters, etc. dilute or thoroughly agitate
the acid in forty TO fifty parts of water
and saturate with same.
Charcoal Powder-To absorb the
putrid gases of any damp or offensive
place, sprinkle when dry and fresh.
Chloride OF Lime-To give off chlorine
to destroy putrid effiuvia and to stop
putrefaction in cellars, vaults, and
tables: Use dry and sprinkle on the
floors of apartments, or, better, use in
solution, and wash the floors and wood
work with it. Strong vinegar poured
on it increases its efficiency.
Chlorinated Soda-For disinfecting
clothing and cleaning the surfaces of
corpse5: Use pint of the solution to
two quarts of hot water.
Heavy Oil of Coal Tar-For drains,
sewers, foul heaps, etc: Mix with saw
dust and spread thickly upon the ground
or paint the inside walls with it,
Permanganate Potassa-To be used
in disintectng clothing and towels,
bedding, etc, from patients sick with
infectious diseases: Throw the clothing
to be disinfccted into q tub of water in
which one ounce of this disinfectant
has been dissolved in every three gal
Ions OF water.
Quck-ime-To absorb moisture and
putrid fluids and free from foul smells:
Use fresh stone lime finely broken and
sprinkle or place in plates or pan, or
whtewash wilh pure lime in damp
rooms.
Sesqui chloride of iron, for vaults:
Take . solution of 1.30 specific gravity
and throw it into vaults, or. better still,
Use what.Is known rs metropolitan dis
injecting fluid, which is the solution of
the 'sesqui chloride of iron with 10 per
cent of carbOlic acid.
Suphurous acid for the disinfection
of infected apartments, carpets, etc,
to which boiling heat can not be ap-
piled: The windows and doors leading
out of the infected room to be closed,
then fumigate with burning sulphur.
The room must remain under the action
from two to six hours. A common
tenemcnt-room will require about two
pounds of sulphur TO be burned on a
sheet-iron pan supported by an iron
stand nine inches high.
Sulphate of Iron (cOpperas)-To dis
infect the same as carbolic acid: One
of the best disinfectanls is made by dis
solving eight or ten pounds of the sui
phate in five gallons Of water, and add
one pint OF fluid carbolic acid. Stir or
agitate the mixture brjskly TO make a
complete solution. Use in the same
manner as was directed for carbolic
acid, only pour double the quantity
morning and evening into water-closet
pans
Suiphate of zine may be used for the
same purpose rs peTmanganate potassa.
U3e two ounces OF the suIphatc to one
gill of water.-.St. Louis Repu6LicaH.